Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 3
What really happened: Magna Carta in 1215 mainly protected barons and the Church, but it set the idea that even the king must follow the law, and later people used it to argue for wider rights.
Who acts: Magna Carta, Church, king, people · What happens: happen, protect, set, follow, use, argue · To what, where: barons, idea, law
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magna Carta, Church, king, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Carta | punct |
| 5 | Magna | Magna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Carta | compound |
| 6 | Carta | Carta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 protected | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1215 | case |
| 8 | 1215 | 1215 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Carta | nmod |
| 9 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 10 protected | advmod |
| 10 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 11 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 protected | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Church | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Church | det |
| 14 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 barons | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 idea | det |
| 20 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 follow | mark |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 king | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 follow | aux |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 idea | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 law | det |
| 28 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 used | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 used | cc |
| 31 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 used | advmod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 used | nsubj |
| 33 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 used | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 argue | mark |
| 36 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 used | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 rights | case |
| 38 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 rights | amod |
| 39 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 argue | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | protect | past | Magna Carta in 1215 | barons and the Church | mainly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | set | past | Church | the idea | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient idea=Result | ||||
| 4 | follow | must | the king | the law | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 5 | use | past | people | law | late property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | people not said here | for wider rights | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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